Bozell: Why Such Slim Cinema Pickings

Brent Bozell's culture column this week focused on his attempts to take young 11-year-old son Reid to the multiuplex on a Saturday. He was First, a gratingly long list of mediocre R-rated movies: Blindness (rated R): Completely hopeless film about people catching an infectious disease of blindness and getting rounded up in a mental asylum.Quarantine (R): Completely hopeless film about a TV news…
Tim Graham
 

Cindy McCain's Attorney Sends Complaint Letter to NYT's Keller

Before the New York Times published Saturday's 2500-word, front-page hit piece about Cindy McCain, an attorney representing the wife of the Arizona senator sent a letter to executive editor Bill Keller appealing to his "sense of fairness, balance and decency" to not run "another story about her."In the correspondence, which has been posted in full by Time magazine's Mark Halperin (h/t NBer Bob Mc…
Noel Sheppard
 

MSM Investigates Joe the Plumber While Ignoring Bill the Bomber

P.J. Gladnick
 

Olbermann Responds to McCain's Charity Roasting by Bashing Palin

Keith Olbermann cowardly responded to the jokes John McCain made about him at Thursday's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner by attacking Gov. Sarah Palin.After showing some of the hysterical jibes made at the charity event by McCain and Barack Obama, the "Countdown" host on Friday picked up a microphone, and while doing an astoundingly poor impersonation of a nightclub comic, launched…
Noel Sheppard
 

WaPo Obama Endorsement: Hope Overflows

Tim Graham
 

Naomi Cries Wolf: NBC Entertains Theory of Bush Fascism on 'Today

Tim Graham
 

NYT 'House Conservative' Comes Close to Endorsing Obama

P.J. Gladnick
 

Weekend Sports Open Thread

My oh my oh my what a wonderful Saturday of college football should be ahead of us. If today's schedule doesn't send a thrill up your leg, nothing will:No. 22 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Georgia. I know we've got Dawgs fans here. Can any of you point to the last game between these two teams that was this big? No. 16 Kansas at No. 4 Oklahoma. Does this have the possibility of being another HUGE Big 12…
NB Staff
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: McCain calls Obama's tax plan socialist.Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of favoring a socialistic economic approach by supporting tax cuts and tax credits McCain says would merely shuffle wealth rather than creating it. "At least in Europe, the Socialist leaders who so admire…
NB Staff
 

NYT Reporter Sends Facebook Message to Violate McCain Daughter Privacy

P.J. Gladnick
 

GMA Robo-Reports Against McCain

Someone should explain to ABC: it ain't "dirty" if it's true.  GMA got the collective vapors this morning over the robo-calls the RNC and McCain campaign are making, informing voters of Barack Obama's close association with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.  In GMA's book, there's no real difference between these calls—which Cokie Roberts alluded to as "dirtier" tactics—and the calls made against…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Margaret Carlson Is Not Amused by Joe the Plumber

P.J. Gladnick
 

Culture Clash: Madonna vs. 'Fireproof

Tim Graham
 

NBC: 'If World Had a Vote, Barack Obama Would Win in a Landslide

Friday's NBC Nightly News devoted a story to how around the world “people want to turn a page on the Bush years” and, as if it's relevant, “if the world had a vote, Barack Obama would win in a landslide.” A suggestion to viewers on what they must do to restore America's honor? Reporter Dawna Friesen warned that the next President “faces a grim reality: Much of the world deeply distrusts, even…
Brent Baker